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Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides)
Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides)
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This adult male was photographed in Colorado on 4/25/03.
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NVstatebird IDstatebird Colorado Spinney Mountain Reservoir Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides
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A special request.... special because getting the right bluebird has proved tricky....

There's a "state birds" group....

www.flickr.com/groups/statebirds/

Even if you don't want to join the group, and post your picture there, you could use a tagging convention I hope will be useful:

As the mountain bluebird is the state bird of Idaho and Nevada a photo of one might be tagged....

NVstatebird, and
IDstatebird

I hope you'll help the "find pictures of state bird" effort thus... and maybe pick up some click throughs to your photo along the way!

There's a list of what the other state birds are at....

www.50states.com/bird/

And a reminder of the correct abbreviations for the states at...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._postal_abbreviations

And lastly, while you're at it, another tag you might (unless you already have it!) want to

add is the latin name, which is....

Sialia currucoides

(That from what I was sent to by the Flickr Field Guide to Birds group....

www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp?pg=checklist&lang=EN

...)

(Note that for the latin name, the capitalization you see is correct, and Flickr's search engine does not need the first letter to be small.)

(There's also a Field Guide to Birds group you could do a lot for...)
Posted on Apr 28, 2006
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